Breed to Kill

In 1987, weeks after a 7-year-old girl barely survived a brutal attack by a neighbor's pit bull, Miami-Dade became the one of the first counties in the nation to ban the entire breed of dog.The law remains on the books today, even as it's earned the scorn of everyone from the Humane Society to the American Veterinary Medical Association. As we wrote last year, the ban is expensive, impossible to enforce and leads to the death of hundreds of dogs that probably aren't even pit bulls. In 2008 alone, Miami-Dade officials confiscated more than 800 dogs under the law and euthanized more than 650. Now a filmmaker from Tennessee hopes to change that. Libby R. Sherrill, a former HGTV producer turned indie director, has made a documentary called Behind the Myth that looks at pit bull bans in Miami, Denver and Cincinnati and at recent attempts to draft a ban in San Francisco. Sat., June 12, 7 p.m., 2010

Tim Elfrink is an award-winning investigative reporter, the managing editor of the Miami New Times and the co-author of "Blood Sport: Alex Rodriguez and the Quest to End Baseball's Steroid Era." Since 2008, he's written in-depth pieces on police corruption, fatal shootings and social justice issues across South Florida. He's won the George Polk Award and has been a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.